No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
—Mahatma Gandhi
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
—Virginia Woolf
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
—Karl Lagerfeld
I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.
—Margaret Cho
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
—Mark Twain
When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Someone out there is looking for exactly what you've got… and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Failure is an event, never a person.
—William D. Brown
Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
—M. Scott Peck in The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth